Conspiracy alert: Was Sonic the Hedgehog's disastrous initial design reveal actually intentional?
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Some of you might recall from your recurring nightmares that the initial rollout of Sonic the Hedgehog’s titular character was pretty disastrous, and what most assumed should have been a straightforward, three-dimensional CGI port of a pretty simple cartoon character design instead spawned the above atrocity.